Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a fancy new name popped up for a transatlantic stunt hop. A California pilot named Thomas H. Smith called his a "research flight." He took off from Old Orchard Beach, Me. in a light Aeronca powered with a four-cylinder, 65-h.p. engine, started for Ireland with 160 gallons of fuel-enough, he hoped, for 32 to 40 hours. Smith had no permit from the Civil Aeronautics Authority, said he wanted to test the possibilities of light planes for long-distance flights. Said one of Smith's friends: "He is a level-headed kid and I think...
...nervous as a schoolgirl, Canada last week anxiously awaited the most important event in her life since Wolfe landed with his Army under the bluffs of Quebec 180 years ago to wrest the country from the French for Britain. George VI, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland and of the British Dominions Beyond the Seas, King, and his Queen, Elizabeth, were coming a-visiting-the first sovereign visit in Canada's history...
Visitors at the New York World's Fair:* Sean T. O'Kelly, Vice President of the Executive Council of Eire, who prophesied: "I don't think there's a ghost of a chance of Ireland's fighting for anyone if she can get out of it"; Nicaragua's burly President-Dictator Anastasio Somoza; San Francisco's Mayor Angelo J. Rossi; Wooster, Ohio's Mrs. Otelia Compton, 80, whom Mrs. James Rooseveltt decorated as "American Mother of 1939" (her children: Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Dr. Karl T. Compton; Washington Attorney Wilson...
Most Irishmen were jubilant at another of "Dev's" diplomatic victories and saw in it a trump to take the final trick in the Eire-Britain game-rule of Northern Ireland...
...Northern Ireland, the people there have two minds on the subject. One-third of the population is Catholic (although there is no Catholic in the Government) and looks upon union with Eire as a deliverance from the fanatically Protestant rule of Lord Craigavon's Northern Ireland Government. Industrial (and very much depressed) Belfast would, moreover, be a natural complement to agricultural Eire...